East Broadway

East Broadway is an east-west street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It begins at Chatham Square and ends at Grand Street, running through Chinatown, Two Bridges, and the Lower East Side, and under the Manhattan Bridge. It was home to a large Jewish community before the influx of Puerto Ricans and African-Americans after the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, an influx of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan occurred, and Fuzhou immigrants began to settle along East Broadway during the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1990s, a "Little Fuzhou" enclave was formed along the street, but the rapid gentrification of the mid-to-late 2000s led to Fuzhou residents and businesses declining rapidly in the neighborhood.